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Vincent Bonsignore@DailyNewsVinny
#Rams G.M. Les Snead: “Aaron Donald is in the budget” (and so are all the #Rams young stars). “We didn’t do all this and forget about him for sure.”Alden Gonzalez@Alden_Gonzalez
Rams GM Les Snead: “We have plenty of space over the next two years to lock up these guys long term and have this core together. And that’s the goal.”Snead: “We have plenty of (cap) space over the next few years to lock up these guys.”
well then sign aaron. holy crap. how long are we gonna have to hear about how they have enough space to extend aaron before they actually extend him?
i get this sick feeling in my stomach that aaron will be gone in a year or two.
zn, thanks for posting the college visits list, I was looking for that.
I see only one likely first round pick on that list; Vita Vea. I know the list is incomplete right now, but only one? That’s odd. I would think the team wants to have a private visit with the kid they take at #23.
makes me think they want the trade down. but i don’t think it’s a complete list like you said. for example they brought james daniels in for a visit but he’s not listed on there.
am listening to sirius nfl right now. they had jedd fisch who i either forgot or didn’t remember is now a senior offensive assistant with the rams. last year he was offensive coordinator and interim head coach for the bruins. they asked him about kolton miller and he all he had to say about miller is that he never missed a practice. didn’t quite know what to make of it. if the rams had any interest in miller i wonder what kind of input he would have. i’d have to think a lot.
the ridiculous part of me speculates that there is real interest miller but they’re trying to keep a lid on it. thus the muted response from fisch. a pre-draft visit would be easy to do with miller and who better to get insight from than his former offensive coordinator?
The Professor
According to http://www.draftace.com/draft-visit-tracker/, the rams are the only teams to have had pre-draft visits with OT Tyrell Crosby Oregon and LB Ogbonnia Okoronkwo Oklahoma. They are also only other team that has had a visits with DE Justin Lawler SMU (TB) and one team with DE Joe Ostman Central Michigan (Oak).
As teams are allowed 30 visits and many teams only have 5 to 10 visits listed, these players may be interviewed by other teams (or were interviewed at the combine, senior bowl, etc.).
The rams also interviewed the RB from SDSU Rashaad Penny, but he shows up on about 8-10 teams lists.
i like what i’ve read about okoronkwo. i also really really like what i’ve read about penny.
okoronkwo’s 40 was low. so maybe he drops which would be great. he’s low to the ground. he’s explosive. 38″ vert. 10 foot broad jump. and he ran a sub-6.9 3-cone. an excellent number for an edge rusher. so he’s short and a little slower. i know snead loves that cuz it could mean a bargain in the third round.
i really feel like the suh donald combo will work.
of course i said that about the donald quinn combo. but injuries really derailed that. hopefully, suh and donald stay healthy.
i’m not too concerned about the dirty play. all things being equal could i live without it? of course. i’d rather he just leave that stuff out. but ultimately, i don’t think it’s going to hurt the team too much.
nor am i too concerned about comments that he took plays off. i think when you play as many snaps as he has your body will wear down. and you will take more plays off. i anticipate that suh will play less snaps with the rams and will therefore be fresher during games.
i am concerned about comments that he freelanced way too much in the defense. i guess we’ll just have to see. if the defense is playing great, maybe he won’t feel the need to play outside the system? i don’t know. was his freelancing in the past the product of playing on a mediocre defense and him feeling the need to make a play? i don’t know.
but when you have three defensive linemen on first and second down. who all three command a double team. don’t know how that can be a bad thing.
i will say that i always liked suh. even back to when it was suh bradford in the 2010 draft. even despite all the dirty plays. i always felt he was a great player. always imagined what it would be like with him as a ram. so i’m glad they got him to sign.
Jared Goff was NFL's 11th-best deep passer in 2017, according to this metric
Jared Goff was NFL’s 11th-best deep passer in 2017, according to this metric
By: Cameron DaSilva | March 30, 2018 2:33 pm ET
Jared Goff took a huge step in the right direction last season after an utterly horrendous rookie campaign. To be fair, his struggles in 2016 weren’t entirely his fault, but there were some already (and unfairly) calling him a bust.
He silenced those doubters last season by racking up 3,804 yards, 28 touchdown passes and seven interceptions. He completed 62.1 percent of his passes with a rating of 100.5, earning his first trip to the Pro Bowl.
One of the knocks on his game, however, was his deep-ball passing. He seemed to struggle on throws deep downfield, which partially contributed to Sammy Watkins’ underwhelming numbers. Goff may not have been as bad as some want to believe, though.
According to Next Gen Stats, he ranked 11th in the NFL in that department. The metric was a composite score of each quarterback’s ranking in passer rating, completion rate, percentage of yards on deep passes and touchdown rate.
Jared Goff narrowly missed the list, finishing 11th among qualifying quarterbacks. The second-year pro boasted a 95.8 passer rating and 35.4 percent completion rate on deep throws, but threw just three touchdown passes of this sort.
Alex Smith led the NFL with a score of five, ranking first in passer rating, completion rate and percentage of yards on deep passes. He was also second in touchdown rate.
Russell Wilson was the only other NFC West quarterback in the top 11, finishing fifth. He ranked third in yards accumulated on deep passes, which illustrates just how frequently he took shots downfield and connected.
It’s not the best metric out there, but it does combine a number of important statistics to find the best in that department.
james daniels. rams are bringing him in for a pre-draft visit in april.
i’m intrigued. schrager mocked him to the rams in his latest mock draft.
graded as a first to second round pick. arguably the best center prospect in the draft.
only 20 years old. rare athlete for his position. i might be more worried about center than i am left tackle. although really. they’re both old. but whitworth seems to be the healthier of the two.
rams could trade down and still get this guy. and at this point. i’m really more worried about depth. so more draft picks wouldn’t hurt.
Note: I wouldn’t necessarily assume this guy is a tackle in the Rams eyes. Kromer has a long history of putting guys like this at guard.
well. he’s got length (35″ arms). so i think he could play guard or tackle.
